Golden jubilee of Film Society Movement in Bangladesh
Film activists will hold a yearlong celebration to commemorate the golden jubilee of Film Society Movement in Bangladesh, next year. Two committees have already been formed to arrange the programmes that will start from January 4, next year. Veteran film activists Muhammad Khasru and Mahbub Jamil will lead the committees.
The programmes also include a daylong seminar (on March 16, 2013), procession to celebrate the National Cinema Day (April 3), round table (July 6), daylong art camp (November 8), Golden Jubilee Film Festival and a memorial lecture (November 9-15) and a reunion on the concluding day (December 28).
The organisers will invite an internationally recognised film personality to deliver the memorial lecture. Two commemorative books and two posters will be published and printed on the occasion.
Apart from the programmes, classic films from around the world will be screened throughout the year at different venues.
The first film society in the country, the then Pakistan Film Society (now Bangladesh Film Society), was formed on October 25, 1963. Among the founders were music exponent and cultural activist Waheedul Haque and bureaucrat Anwarul Haque Khan.
The society screened Satyajit Ray's “Pather Panchali” and Mikhail Kalatozov's “The Cranes are Flying” in its first film screening session.
In 1975, the society organised a workshop on film appreciation, conducted by Professor Satish Bahadur. Many film personalities such as Masihuddin Shaker, Anwar Hossain, Badal Rahman, Tanvir Mokammel, Manzare Hasin Murad and Tareque Masud participated in the workshop.
The society was very active during the early 1980s, boasting a group of talented young activists including Tareque Masud, Morshedul Islam and Tanvir Mokammel.
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